Making Elasticsearch in Docker Swarm Elastic
Running on Elasticsearch on Docker sounds like a natural fit – both technologies promise elasticity. However, running a truly elastic Elasticsearch cluster on Docker Swarm became somewhat difficult...
View ArticleElasticsearch security: Authentication, Encryption, Backup
The recent ransom attack on public Elasticsearch instances showed that Elasticsearch security is still a hot topic. Elasticsearch was not the only target – tens of thousands of poorly configured...
View Article[VIDEO] Elasticsearch for logs and metrics: A deep dive @O’Reilly Velocity
Since we work with Elasticsearch and Solr on a daily basis and know so much about them we like helping others improve their knowledge of these technologies, not only through Solr & Elastic Stack...
View ArticleKafka Connect Elasticsearch: Consuming and Indexing with Kafka Connect
In the world of DevOps, metric collection, log centralization and analysis Apache Kafka is the most commonly used middleware. More specifically, it is used as a fast, persistent queue between data...
View ArticleElasticsearch 5.x and Kibana 5.x
We’ve refreshed not only the Sematext Cloud UI, but also our backend, or one of them at least. Last week, we’ve updated Elasticsearch to the latest 5.x version. Along with it we’ve updated the...
View ArticleSecuring Elasticsearch and Kibana with Search Guard for free
Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. In this article, we show you how to secure Elasticsearch...
View ArticleSearch Guard – Security for Elasticsearch
Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. Elasticsearch is a great piece of software. We really...
View ArticleX-Pack Alternatives
People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions like...
View ArticleTop 15 Solr vs. Elasticsearch Differences
Solr vs. Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch vs. Solr. Which one is better? How are they different? Which one should you use? Before we start, check out two useful Cheat Sheets to guide you through both Solr...
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